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[quinara]

Sometimes I forget how much I love the Iliad. And then there're bits that are just perfect, like where Hector just stops near the end of Book VI and speaks in this Greek that's so freaking clear:

εὖ γὰρ ἐγὼ τόδε οἶδα κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν·
ἔσσεται ἦμαρ ὅτ’ ἄν ποτ’ ὀλώληι Ἴλιος ἱρὴ
καὶ Πρίαμος καὶ λαὸς ἐϋμμελίω Πριάμοιο.

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For well do I know this in my mind and in my heart:
There will be a day when sacred Ilium will fall,
And Priam and the people of Priam, him of the ashen spear.

And then he carries on, praying to Zeus that Astynax will become a great lord of Troy and telling Andromache to go and hang out with all the other women, even though he knows it's a great big farce. So amazing.

In other words, don't mind me...

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[quinara]

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